Legit Wrestling
In 2005, Portland television producer Matt Legit (Matthew Merz) - who had worked to bring a variety of independent federations to Portland television, including CHIKARA, EPIC WAR & Quebec's Northern Championship Wrestling - began airing classic Portland Wrestling footage (which had fallen into the public domain) on local Public-access television cable TV stations. KPTV had evidently wiped the original broadcast tapes, as Don Owen did not foresee the need to spend the $25 (US) per week KPTV had requested for keeping and archiving the tapes.
The notion that broadcast-quality tapes of Portland Wrestling no longer exist is validated by the WWE Home Video release Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story. The Portland Wrestling footage found in that DVD was licensed from Barry Owen, but the vast majority of it, which appeared to be from late 1980, visually appeared to be of a quality consistent with having been recorded on a VCR and dubbed from there.
As of February 2012, Matt Legit has launched youtube.com/LegitProWrestling which not only features his own extensive archive of Pacific Northwest wrestling, but will also include the classic Portland Wrestling archive come 2013. The original channel - youtube.com/LegitWrestling - contained over 2,000 videos spanning 40 years of Pacific Northwest Wrestling, representing nearly every promotion that ever existed in the Northwest Territory. His new YouTube Channel - youtube.com/LegitProWrestling - currently hosts over 2,000 videos of just PNW indy wrestling. Legit has promised a return of his classic archive, which dates back to 1977.
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